DSR 11 (Revised)
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J A Shepherd
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Dame Anne Warburton
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CHINA, HONG KONG AND THE GATT
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1.
Thank you for your letter of 2 May to Robin Renwick,
As
from who has asked me to reply. You will by now have seen my
we here agree with letter of 29 April to Tony Lane, which makes many of the
your second
same points that you outline in paragraph 2 of your
*
letter We were also grateful to see Barry Harding's
comments on the DTI paper in his letter of 2 May, which contained many useful observations Discurs in on the general ime of China and the SATT continues; but I am sure that it would be useful to know Junkel's views.
we also agree.
with
2. I am sure you are right to stress the need to get the
you about
Hong Kong application in as quickly as we can. We are of
as lemingine you know, course fully aware of the urgency and expect to send you
soon a redraft of the Hong Kong Executive Council paper
on Hong Kong's future participation in the GATT. It will
the be important to set/wheels in motion as soon as possible
both to reassure the Hong Kong trading community that
the basis for the Hong Kong free market economy will
continue, and to pre-empt any Chinese attempt to trade
off co-operation over the future of Hong Kong in the GATT
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